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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RICHARD F. HALLEOK, OF NEIV YORK, N. Y.

WASHING PREPARATION SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.449,879, dated April '7, 1891.

Application filed August 1, 1890. Serial No. 360,686. (No specimens.) 5

To all whom it 11mg concern:

Be it known that I, RICHARD F. HALLECK, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of the city of New York, county of New York, and State ofNew York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in \VashingPreparations, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved liqnid preparation to be used forwashing clothes; and the object of my invention is to provide apreparation of this kind which dissolves and removes the dirt, &c., fromthe clothes very rapidly and effectually without requiring the clothesto be rubbed or beaten, and which does not in any way alfect the clothesin j uriously.

The improved liquid preparation for washing clothes is prepared in thefollowing manner: In one gallon of a light hydrocarbon from petroleu n1-such as kerosene, for exampleone-half pound of camphor is dissolved, andone quart of onions are placed into the hydrocarbon-and-camphor solutionand'allowed to stand for two days. The onions are extracted by thehydrocarbon and are then removed from the mixture by straining it. Thismixture is used in the following manner: One table-spoonful of themixture is added to five to ten gallons of boiling water, the clothesare rubbed with soap until suds are formed, and are then boiled forabout ten minutes in the mixture of my improved liquid preparation andwater, and are then taken out and rinsed in cold water and blued, ifdesired, and then wrung in the ordinary manner and dried. The camphortakes the smell from the kerosene and is also a disinfectant.

The hydrocarbon dissolves the fats, dirts,

greases, &c., in the clothes and the onion extract disengages orreleases from the clothes the fats, greases, dirt, and other impuritiesdissolved by the hydrocarbon. The clothes need not be rubbed, but aremerelyboiledin the mixture of water and Inyimproved liquid preparation,and thereby all the dirt is removed, as is also any infection that maybe contained in the clothes. 7

None of the ingredients of my improved preparation :1 ffect the clothesinj uriously, and as the clothes need not be rubbed or beaten the fibersare not broken or strained, and thus the durability of the clothes isincreased.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent A preparation for use in washing clothes,- con'sistingof a light hydrocarbon oil of petroleum, camphor, and extract of onions,mixed aboutin the proportions as herein shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed myname in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

RICHARD F. HALLEOK.

Witnesses;

OSCAR F. GUNZ, M. REIMHERR.

